Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jan 1999 04:25:32 -0500 (EST) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> It's the other way round: the X server can't live with the frame >> buffer console. It can live with the text console only. > > I know that didn't use to be true - I could start a X server from within > another X server, and the second X server would restore the _graphics_ > mode of the first one.
> But I suspect there is some GGI mentality somewhere - people thinking that > all graphics should be done by the fb layer and thus don't even _want_ to > consider X working. And such mentality is worse than a small bug, I'm > afraid, as it tends to mean that the thing never gets fixed.
It is hard to understand why you would say this. Do you believe that XFree86 can change and restore a graphics mode on any card? If so, I can see why you might hate GGI.
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